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Nearly everyone's been scammed on the internet - it's a rite of passage at this point, to direct ire at some faceless person through a screen. Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cloud asks who the person on the other side of that screen is and turns out it's just some guy named Yoshii living in a cramped apartment hoarding everything from knockoff designer handbags to anime figurines encased in glass.

Cloud

Director Kiyoshi KurosawaRelease Date September 27, 2024Writers Kiyoshi KurosawaCast Yoshiyuki Morishita, Toshihiro Yashiba, Yusei Mikawa, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Masaaki Akahori, Amane Okayama, Daiken Okudaira, Kotone Furukawa, Maho Yamada, Tetsuya Chiba, Yoshiyoshi Arakawa, Masaki Suda, Yutaka Matsushige, Masataka KubotaRuntime 123 MinutesGenres Thriller, Action, Horror

Yoshii doesn't consider himself a scammer. Rather, he's a reseller of desirable goods, mostly so he can make enough money to do as little as possible. He works part-time, but when his boss wants to promote him to manager, he refuses.

Although it might seem the amount of family drama would result in a certain over-saturation of the market, the sub-genres tendency to touch upon issues of personal as well as national identity along with a wide range of social themes, make the family unit one of the most lasting metaphors of our time. Within the last couple of years, international audiences have seen the various facets of said metaphor, for example, in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s highly successful “Shoplifters”, which also shed a light to the “invisible” members of our society and their problems. In that regard, Michio Koshikawa’s feature “After the Sunset” has to be seen in a similar light, as the story of the film deals with family issues, while its themes of identity may reflect a much wider search for identity and the re-affirmation of the concept of home.

“After the Sunset” is screening at Nippon Connection...